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After a week of fighting, Sri Lankan troops had battled their way up Jaffna Peninsula, ousting ethnic Tamil separatists from a number of strongholds in the northern tip of the island nation. The cost was high: as many as 200 civilians believed dead and thousands more left without food. But, said a high-ranking official in Colombo, the capital, "we were winning...
...week James Nachtwey won for the third time in four years, becoming the second person in the history of the award (after the late Larry Burrows of LIFE) to do so. Nachtwey's picture stories included a series done jointly for TIME and West Germany's GEO on the Tamil rebels of Sri Lanka, and coverage for TIME of the Philippines and the mujahedin guerrillas in Afghanistan. In addition, Nachtwey was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association-University of Missouri School of Journalism...
...explosion capped the bloodiest week yet since the outbreak of civil war four years ago. The government of President Junius R. Jayewardene blamed two separatist groups for the violence: the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Eelam Revolutionary Organization. Sri Lanka's 2 million Tamils have long protested against political and economic discrimination by the country's 16 million Sinhalese. While moderate Tamil leaders have attempted to negotiate a settlement of the conflict, the Tigers and other militant groups have demanded an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka's Northern and Eastern provinces...
...station bombing followed a killing spree that left at least 285 dead in six days. The carnage began over the weekend when Tamil rebels ambushed holiday travelers on a jungle road in Trincomalee district, gunning down 127 and injuring scores of others, including women and children. Almost all were Sinhalese. Three days later, Tamils fleeing a manhunt for the Trincomalee killers burst into homes in nearby Wanela, tied up 15 inhabitants and shot them dead...
...attacks seemed designed to divide the country even further -- and reduce the options available to the beleaguered Jayewardene government. Though many Sinhalese in Colombo have Tamil relatives and friends, the growing violence has forced moderates on both sides to drift toward the extremes. Some analysts speculate that this is the Tigers' intent: by provoking a backlash and polarizing opinion, they hope to preclude a negotiated peace. For many Sinhalese, any sympathy for the Tamil cause evaporated in the wake of last week's attacks...